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At least three major Arizona agricultural groups aren’t pleased with the new immigration law the state passed last Friday.

Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.

“Homeland security begins with hometown security,” Secretary Janet Napolitano says.

The DREAM Act passed by the House of Representatives yesterday does not contain AgJOBS, which suggests passage of either is unlikely.

Vermont’s congressional delegation is sponsoring companion bills to expand a visa program to allow struggling dairy farmers more access to foreign workers.

The installation uses four robotic milkers in sequence to prep and attach milker units.

Employees might not be who they say they are.

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dairy farm owners in Michigan Wednesday.

With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.

California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers overtime pay after eight hours of work in a day and 40 hours in a week.